Best War Film about D-Day June 6,1944

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2003)

This is the video I watch about every year around June 6. This black and white film,winner of 2 academy awards,directed by Darryl F.Zanuck and made in 1962 rests next to my copies of "Patton" and "Tora!Tora!Tora!". Besides John Wayne there are 47 other star actors you see with big parts or cameo size parts. This film tries to show the way men were feeling and reacting
during the Invasion of Normandy during WW2 and that words of the German Field Marshal Rommel proved true when he said it... (Invasion Day)would be "The Longest Day" for both the Allies and the
Germans. The film tries to show what was going on before and after
"D Day" and must leave out every event unless the film be several hours longer. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan I found it to be true in most details but wish it would have shown how the U.S. Navy Destroyer came in close to the shore to help silence some of the German artillery with its big guns and the fact that German Panzer tanks were waiting behind the beaches with their motors running ,waiting to get orders from Hitler to engage the Allied forces ,but it never came because Hitler was asleep in Berlin and his people were afraid to wake him because he was prone to make bad decisions and he was convinced the REAL invasion would come farther north in France and closer to England. Overall the film was a fine one and makes me proud of American military in time of war and sad that so many men died to keep us free.